Feb 18, 2013 | Refugee
Bangkok – 14 February 2013 – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) this week began delivering footballs and other play and recreation supplies to eight Ministry of Social Development and Human Security (MSDHS) shelters caring for Rohingya children in southern...
Feb 18, 2013 | Refugee
COLOMBO – Sri Lanka’s navy on Saturday rescued 38 Myanmar nationals who were drifting off the island’s east coast, the second batch of Rohingya boat people to be saved in as many weeks, officials said. Sri Lankan naval craft responding to a distress...
Feb 18, 2013 | Refugee
SITTWE, Burma — Abu Kassim clutched his stomach and heaved forward, replaying the moment his uncle was shot dead last summer, one of scores of people who were killed as sectarian violence engulfed western Burma. Abu Kassim, 26, and his ethnic Rohingya family have...
Feb 18, 2013 | Refugee
The United States should play a key role in negotiating with Myanmar to take back thousands of Rohingya migrants who are being sheltered in several provinces of Thailand, a seminar was told yesterday. Col Teeranan Nandhakwang, deputy director of the Strategic and...
Feb 18, 2013 | Refugee
COLOMBO – Sri Lanka’s navy on Saturday rescued 38 Myanmar nationals who were drifting off the island’s east coast, the second batch of Rohingya boat people to be saved in as many weeks, officials said. Sri Lankan naval craft responding to a distress...
